Sweet Treats

It’s this time of the year again and I couldn’t be more excited! 🙂 When you’re travelling and living abroad for a long time like I do for the past 8 years you start to cherish those happy holidays and joyful memories from your childhood. For me, christmas is all about the pre-christmas time. The music, the smells, the cold and, of course, the sweets! Christmas sweets are probably my favourite as they bring up lots of nostalgic memories of baking sessions with my mum and my brother. Usually, however, they are loaded with sugar and fatty animal products. This is why I’m dedicating this year’s pre-christmas time to baking healthy and delicious treats for everyone to enjoy! 🙂 And these vegan christmas pralines are right up my ally!…

If you are as obsessed with salted caramel as I am lately, you are going to love these salted caramel almond blondies! Salted caramel basically fits with everything, but I discovered that it tastes especially amazing in between the soft warm dough of cookie bars. Usually, salted caramel is full of refined sugars and sticks to your teeth for about a week, but this caramel is completely natural, without any added sugar and purely sweetened by ooey-gooey dates! That’s why these salted caramel almond blondies are also much more healthy and wholesome than most traditional recipes. They’re also completely oil-free and can be made gluten-free, how great is that? :-)…

Ever since it has become a bit more chilly I have been craving foods that are typical for fall. Lately, my newest obsession is butternut squash. Everything that includes butternut squashes, ranging from simple roasted, soups, stews or curries, I’m in! In line with the theme I decided to divert from the classic pumpkin pie recipes and try out this exciting Butternut Squash Cake! 🙂 Honestly, it is such a perfect combination. I don’t have much experience with pumpkins or squashes in baking, but this recipe is so rich in taste, fluffy, moist and just perfectly spiced that I will be including pumpkin and squashes a lot more to upgrade my baking game. For the frosting I chose a heavenly almond orange cream, which perfectly compliments the fluffy Butternut Squash Cake.

If there is one thing I have been missing when going fully plant-based it’s baked cheesecakes! Don’t get me wrong, raw cheesecakes are wonderful and especially great during hot summer days, but, for me, they don’t come even close to a delicious, creamy baked cheesecake. Cheesecake has always been my favourite cake, next to poppyseed cake, and I can’t even count the times that I asked my mum to bake me one for my birthday or holidays. Now this baked cheesecake is just next level! Not only is it completely plant-based, gluten-free and refined sugar-free but also heavenly creamy with an extra fruity touch on top! 🙂

Ohhh yesss! Just take a look at these delicious beauties! 🙂 Is there anyone who doesn’t love magnum ice cream? If there is one thing I have been missing then it’s probably this. But, not to worry anymore, because this raw vegan magnum with salted caramel is heavenly and the perfect ‘healthy’ substitute for the real one. I have been experimenting with ice cream a lot lately, just because it’s boiling hot in Israel and because I LOVE ice cream! It’s really fun, and once you get the hang of how to create a good base, you can basically add in all the flavours you like. Now, vanilla and salted caramel are a great combination and this is just the perfect treat for all ice cream lovers out there! 🙂

Ice cream lovers, listen up! If you like ice cream (as much as I do), but don’t want to invest a fortune into buying an ice cream maker to get that creamy texture – here’s a recipe for you! This pitaya coconut ice cream is just amazing! It’s surprisingly fresh and creamy at the same time and the perfect healthy treat for hot summer days! 🙂 Now, what is pitaya? I’ve been asked this many times after posting a photo of this treat on my Instagram account. Some of you might know pitaya under the name of dragon fruit. Pitaya, or dragon fruit, is a beautiful fruit belonging to the cactus species indigenous to the Americas. The flesh is either pink or white and resembles the texture of a kiwi fruit, because of the black crunchy seeds inside. It’s super refreshing, juicy and, most importantly, jam packed with antioxidants and vitamins!

This delicious coconut mango tapioca pudding is the perfect treat for hot summer days! I have been experimenting quite a lot with tapioca pearls lately and they’re just great for puddings, cheeses, etc. I first encountered tapioca during my travels to Israel and Brazil in the past years and have been wanting to integrate it into my dishes ever since. Tapioca is a starch extracted from the cassava root, native to the North Brazilian area. It can be found in form of flakes and powders, although it’s most commonly available in the form of little round pearls. I’ll also try to come up with a healthy recipe for the amazing tapioca crepes that you can find all over Brazil, but for know, I’ll provide you with an amazing tropical pudding recipe! 🙂

Are you ready for the best and simplest sweet treat ever? These amazing coconut chocolate fudge truffles are just heavenly and I can’t wait to share the recipe with you! 🙂 A friend of mine made a similar version for our last pool party and it was SO good that I just had to experiment and create my own version of these delicious balls. It’s one of those treats that melt in your mouth and are so tasty that your facial expression literally changes. Yum!

Looking for a super simple and healthy summer treat? With this 4-ingredient Banana Chocolate Chip Ice Cream you’ve found it! 🙂 What I love about this is that it literally takes 5 minutes to throw all the ingredients together, blend it up and pour it into the molds. Then you just have to wait until it’s frozen, cover it with chocolate and voilà! As easy as pie! It’s the perfect treat to give to your kids (and yourself) because it doesn’t contain any additional sugar – just the natural sweetness of bananas (therefore make sure that you’re bananas are nice ripe and sweet when you freeze them)….

After lots of experimenting, I present to you this marvellous apple pecan ice cream cake! It’s yet another one to add to the recent series of raw freezer cakes, and I’m super excited to share it with all of you, as it turned out really great! 🙂 The combination of apples, pecans, cinnamon and gooey date caramel is just heavenly. Although I would rather associate these flavours with autumn or winter times, due to the fact that’s it’s an ice cream cake, it also goes perfectly during the summer! Also I thought that not all of my followers might have summer now, so some diversity in flavours can’t harm! …